I've lost the job, Dodgy electrician gets it

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I had a call from a commercial landlord about 6 weeks ago who rents out a unit. There's a mechanics garage, hairdressers and hand car wash there.

He wanted the existing supply split up so every business had their own meter. So I told him as I'm very busy it would be a month or so before I could look at it and gave him a rough date this week.

Anyway I turned up today to have a look and it's already been done. I noticed this straight away.

Annoyed that he didn't have the courtesy to tell me and shocked at the work that has been done.

This is just a bit of it.

 

[Andy78]

I dread to ask but what sort of connections lurk under the black gaffer tape ?
That's looking like danger notice time.

 

[Pete999]

Nice

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I wasn't happy at all.

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I dread to ask but what sort of connections lurk under the black gaffer tape ?
That's looking like danger notice time.

That's what I was thinking at first "oh no"

Henleys, with covers taped on.

 

[Pete999]

That's what I was thinking at first "oh no"

Henleys, with covers taped on.

That's was my thoughts as well

 

[Octopus]

I wasn't happy at all.

Turning up to "look" a month after the call isn't going to assist you ......

I'm busy but I go and look within a few days .......... unless the customer wants the job done next week!

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

That's was my thoughts as well

I asked the mechanics if they noticed him testing anything "No nothing at all mate" I asked if they had an EIC "Not yet"

 

[Wilko]

That's what I was thinking at first "oh no"

Henleys, with covers taped on.

Why taped on - suspect he's broken them?

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Why taped on - suspect he's broken them?

It looks like it.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Makes you wonder how much the "electrician" charged for that work and did the landlord only care about the amount on the bill? with no thoughts about safety or work quality... afterall the landlord clearly thinks in £ signs as he wants to be able to bill each unit the right amount... you get what you pay for

 

[Octopus]

Could the OP go back and remove the black tape ?

We ALL want to know what horrors are concealed beneath!

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Could the OP go back and remove the black tape ?

We ALL want to know what horrors are concealed beneath!

I would like to but I think I have fallen out with the eastern europeans at the car wash by calling their electrician friend an incompetent idiot.

Oh yes I forgot to mention their electrician turned up 5 mins after I started criticizing his work.

 

[Octopus]

Oh yes I forgot to mention their electrician turned up 5 mins after I started criticizing his work.

Did he hear what you were saying?

 

[westward10]

Did he hear what you were saying?

Only if he can speak Cyrillic.

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Did he hear what you were saying?

I told him to his face

 

[Andy78]

You should have asked him if he minded signing the danger notification

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Can you see his tails going into the wall. they enter the rear of a meterbox the other side.

He has run a 16mm2 4core swa from this meterbox into a schneider 3ph DB at the other end in an office.

The swa was taken from the meterbox, through the cavity and out through a hole smashed in the external wall, then cable tied to a redundant 4mm2 swa cable for half it's run then just lay on the ground the other half.

 

[buzzlightyear]

just hope he's got a couple l/insurance if that goes up ,stand out side and watch it burn .you get what you pay for .

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Turning up to "look" a month after the call isn't going to assist you ......

I'm busy but I go and look within a few days .......... unless the customer wants the job done next week!

Normally I would have gone sooner, but a new arrival in the family has made it quite difficult.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Normally I would have gone sooner, but a new arrival in the family has made it quite difficult.

when a customer say can you do it in a couple of week ,my reply is ,yeah couple of weeks do you next year .

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Yes he tried that one. I'm booked up until august anyway so not that desperate. I was more concerned with the dangerous work that had been carried out.

 

[buzzlightyear]

when a customer told me once that there is a patter of tiny feet in the house ,I through must be a kid ,looked down on the floor .f88king hell .a white rabbit .I looked at her a said that would look good in a pot .

 

[buzzlightyear]

Yes he tried that one. I'm booked up until august anyway so not that desperate. I was more concerned with the dangerous work that had been carried out.

don't lose sleep over that ,take it from me . tell him if you require my services I will book you in when I have time ,never .

 

[buzzlightyear]

what f88ks me off is a customer .is it cheaper of cash .no same price
cheaper gear .or trying to stick a f88king carrot in front of my nose .
if you do it cheap .I have more jobs in a couple of months .that's ok .
will arrange a time when yacht gets in to port .

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

what f88ks me off is a customer .is it cheaper of cash .no same price
cheaper gear .or trying to stick a f88king carrot in front of my nose .
if you do it cheap .I have more jobs in a couple of months .that's ok .
will arrange a time when yacht gets in to port .

It's funny you say that, he did the same. His brother or something has a property business and could get me work if the price is right bla bla bla. The amount of times I've heard that haha.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I could wright a book on some customers ,when they ring up ,you fitted a chandelier about 30 years ago ,could you do it for the same price .I forgot ,did you pay me with five magic beans .

 

[The Ghost]

It is astonishing what you can actually get away with! And even more astonishing what energy suppliers will fit a meter to! I could have saved my self so much trouble if only I could force myself to do that kind of work and walk away, heaven forbid!

 

[buzzlightyear]

It is astonishing what you can actually get away with

looks like they have ,what's the betting a foreign worker .

 

[The Ghost]

Yeh it sure does look like they have and I am flabbergasted, I would have thought the customer would have looked and said "He should have gone to specsavers" or something. I am just mystified as to how you can do work like that and get paid!

 

[Cadgey123]

Looks safe to me... they have stuck a 230v sticker behind the broken Henley’s just in case though

 

[snowhead]

I am just mystified as to how you can do work like that and get paid!

Because most customers don't know what Good looks like.
He probably thinks that's a perfect job and compared to some it could be.

 

[Pete999]

what f88ks me off is a customer .is it cheaper of cash .no same price
cheaper gear .or trying to stick a f88king carrot in front of my nose .
if you do it cheap .I have more jobs in a couple of months .that's ok .
will arrange a time when yacht gets in to port .

Have you got bad fingers Buzz?

 

[Wilko]

Yes Buzz, time to expand your vocabulary mate. We will still know what you mean

 

[dksanders]

Nobody's mentioned the two earth wires unconnected, they look as if they probably were once, are they not required now?

 

[Flanders]

Looks safe to me... they have stuck a 230v sticker behind the broken Henley’s just in case though

And could not even get that right as it looks to me like a 3 phase supply

 

[delano]

I would like to but I think I have fallen out with the eastern europeans at the car wash by calling their electrician friend an incompetent idiot.

Oh yes I forgot to mention their electrician turned up 5 mins after I started criticizing his work.

Turned up where?

 

[telectrix]

maybe he misspelt turned and meant turnip.